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How “Old-School” Are You?
This morning as I gargled with Listerine Original (est. 1879,)
It got me to thinking of all the products in our house that have been around for a long, long time!
Like Vitalis (est. 1939)
And Chapstick (est. 1912)
We even buy Prince Albert in a can (est. 1907)
And when you go in the kitchen, it’s a similar tale: There you’ll find Clabber Girl (est. 1923)
And Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (est. 1867)
So, what “classic,” “old-time” products are in your house? How “old-school” are you?
Published in General
Miller High Life.
Almost everything I buy is the generic grocery store brand.
My kitchen cupboards look like I’m a member of the Dharma Initiative.
If you go to the dollar stores and places like Big Lots, there’s a substantial number of the old name brands still around. Perhaps only the names have been purchased by other manufacturers, but they exist.
Don’t know if this fits the topic but I still have a land line and almost never carry my cell phone with me. I don’t even know my cell #.
Oh, this fits perfectly! “Land-lines” are definitely “old-school!”
And, yes, we have a “land-line,” too.
I had Popeye spinach for lunch.
I use a Merkur safety razor. I also use a badger hair shaving brush.
And an elephant vacuum cleaner?
Naturally.
Same, except it’s an Edwin Jagger safety razor. And bay rum after-shave.
I would use a straight razor, but RA hands and a straight razor don’t mix well.
It’s a living.
Me too, though my use just started a couple of years ago (my answer to the cost problem Harry’s Shave and Dollar Shave Club seek to address).
Most of my handwriting (diary, meeting notes, etc.) is with a fountain pen. Some with ink cartridges, some filled from a bottle of ink.
Toothpicks Si! Floss No!
Kindly keep the “eeeews” to yourselves.
I drive an electric car that has some impressive similarities to electric cars from 100 years ago.
http://detroitelectric.org
http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/15091-1911-baker-electric-automobile
I saw one of those “Did you know?” posts on Facebook last week about Hydrox and Oreo. Did you know that Hydrox was introduced in 1908 and Oreo in 1912? What I grew up thinking was the imitator arrived on the scene first.
I still have a land line too. And I remember when Old Spice was just called “Spice.” Now get off my lawn.
Over here on the opposite side of the Atlantic, I have in the larder a pack of Digestives, a jar of Marmite and a tin of Bird’s custard powder.
The use of the words larder and tin is old school. 😂
Is English Leather still around? I remember a couple of Christmas’ when I received 5 or 6 bottles. And that was before gift receipts.
Or maybe just geographical.
Don’t be jealous, but I have a melon baller.
Haha! OH all the girls in my high school loved to wear that! Even though it was for men.
British. Especially “tin” instead of “can.”
I wear a fedora, does that count?
I hope that is not red lead paint.
I have a citrus juicer, you know, the kind that you press the lemon on, and twist and shout til all the juice come out.
You know, I never thought of that but there’s an excellent chance it’s lead paint. It was my mom’s from at least the 1950s. Good thing I can’t be bothered to ball melons. Wait that came out wrong.
I’m so old school it’s one room.
You part of the St. Paul mafia?
Went to a friend’s wedding in the cities with my brother @SamRhody . We’re both big guys, in suits and fedoras. Sam’s suit was even pin stripe.
The Mother of the Bride took the groom aside and told him “I want those goons out of here!”
Cannot get more old school than this:
I don’t use a straight razor, though.